I'm delta. I'm an aspiring web developer and genetic engineer. I love playing the ukulele and riding my board around my neighborhood. I have a slight obsession with Netflix, and go on binges too often. I have attention deficit disorder which has made learning difficult for me in the past, but I had gotten by due to an above average intellect. I'm currently still in school and pretty content with my life, though I'm worried about the quality of my friendships at the moment. I've been a member of my school's improv comedy group for over a year and it has been a lot of fun to be a part of something that isn't a sports team for the first time in my life. I've participated in a lot of sports, including baseball, basketball, wrestling, track, swimming, and football. I'm not currently playing sports, but I plan on throwing discus and shotput this spring. I'm currently planning a web UI for e-Vox with cW. I came from AskReddit in the latest wave approximately 40 days ago.
|I came from AskReddit in the latest wave approximately 40 days ago. Me too! :)
You've got a life full of-- well, life! I aspire to enter investment banking, and I once had a meeting with the PM (leader, basically) of a $2 billion hedgefund in NYC. I told him about all my ambitions and plans, and after a few minutes of me spilling my dreams, he cut me off. And he said "Stop looking ahead. Stop planning. Figure yourself out first. Find your interests, all your interests, and act on them. All of them. Fail at all of them, I don't care. But know that you did them, and go as far as you can in everything that you can. In that way, you will end up where you need to be." Always keep that with me now, and I find myself branching out to interests and activites I never thought I'd be involved in :)
Wow, that's a pretty inspirational quote. I have found that many people get it embedded in their minds that they want to go into a specific career when they hardly know themselves yet. I feel like this is why so many students enter college, then change their degree.
I agree, and being personally in the process now I find that it's quite near impossible to break away from the beaten path that private and public schools alike direct us to. It's insensible for someone who has experienced so little (relative to how much there really is to experience) to be able to decide what they want to dedicate themselves to.
I've spoken with a woman who grew up in Germany. It's policy there to take a test at the age of twelve to determine what field of work you will go into. Score high on the test, be educated to have a high paying job that works with science/math. Score low and become educated in crafts of the hand, which tend to pay lower. It's crazy that your life is heavily influenced from such an early age there.
Why not? Edit: I misread, I thought you said it isn't a good thing that international students are coming.
I'm currently planning a web UI for e-Vox with cW.
-This is awesome!I came from AskReddit in the latest wave approximately 40 days ago.
-That's crazy, it seems like you've been around longer than that. It's been nice having you around delta.
Thank you! I've been learning JavaScript and have learned HTML and I plan on this becoming my pet project. It should help me learn a lot. We're keeping the system pretty simple with just audio files, a few images, and a text file on the server. The UI will pull arrays of data from the server and parse it into a tileset which users can navigate to listen to Voxes. This is going to be a ton of fun to make. I'm starting development tomorrow, creating the front-end user input forms. EDIT: Oh, you edited. Thank you! I never commented on Reddit, I was a huge lurker due to the fact that I never liked the Reddit community. I suppose I'm more open around this community. It's been nice reading your posts, and I've enjoyed listening to your music.
Hey delta, For when you feel like you've seen everything worth seeing on Netflix: